National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Hampton County Election Commission

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• holding that increase in candidate filing period while new state law was under preclearance review was a change in voting procedure that requires preclearance
• noting that in the jurisdiction at issue, “an election in March is likely to draw significantly fewer voters than an election held simultaneously with a general election in November”
• rejecting the argument that a change in voting practices or procedures was not subject to § 5 because it was an informal administrative effort designed to comply with a precleared state statute
• “Potential candidates who considered the opening of the filing period illegal” because of objection to propriety of electoral scheme “may have deliberately stayed away.”
• \Potential candidates who considered the opening of the filing period illegal\ because of objection to propriety of electoral scheme \may have deliberately stayed away.\
• change in filing deadline to run for school board in general election

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